Ernie Valles
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Newly licensed Welder and Industrial Maintenance. Highly-motivated employee with desire to take on new challenges. Innovative and reliable individual with proven ability to achieve organizational goals while displaying effective multi-tasking and time management skills. Strong worth ethic, adaptability and exceptional interpersonal skills. Proven valuable problem solving and critical thinking skills.
Skills & Abilities
●Excellent leadership, management, and communication skills
●Capable of solving problems, negotiating and making effective decisions
●Excellent work ethic skills to complete jobs efficiently with minimal oversight
●Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance
Certifications/Licenses
Central Valley Opportunity Center, Inc. Dec. 2023
●AWS Welding and Industrial Maintenance Training
Experience
Turning Points
Welder Dec 2023 – January 2024
●Analyzed and interpreted blueprints to ensure alignment with customer specifications to create a metal layout.
●Performed a variety of metal fabrication activities, including cutting, bending, and assembling.
●Performed welding activities on non0ferrous material, ferrous materials, and alloys, including fabrication, cutting, and melting in alignment with specifications and requirements.
Tank Holding Jan. 2022 –Apr. 2023
Machine Operator:
●Sort, grade, weigh, and inspect products, verifying and adjusting product weight or measurement to meet specifications.
●Monitor and review information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
●Stop or reset machines when malfunctions occur, clear machine jams, and report malfunctions to a supervisor.
Associated Feed and Supply Aug. 2020 –Dec. 2021
Forklift Operator:
●Position lifting devices under, over, or around loaded pallets, skids, or boxes and secure material or products for transport to designated areas.
●Inspect product load for accuracy and safely move it around the warehouse or facility to ensure timely and complete delivery.
●Move levers or controls that operate lifting devices, such as forklifts, lift beams with swivel-hooks, hoists, or elevating platforms, to load, unload, transport, or stack material.
Warehouse Worker Jun. 2019 –Dec. 2019
Foster Farms:
●Position lifting devices under, over, or around loaded pallets, skids, or boxes and secure material or products for transport to designated areas.
●Manually or mechanically load or unload materials from pallets, skids, platforms, cars, lifting devices, or other transport vehicles.
●Determine proper storage methods, identification, and stock location, based on turnover, environmental factors, and physical capabilities of facilities.
G and G Construction Apr. 2017 –Feb. 2019
Repairer
●Assembled and broke down barricades for temporary structures and scaffolding
●Measure, mark, or record openings or distances to layout areas where work will be performed.
●Load, unload, or identify building materials, machinery, or tools, distributing them to the appropriate locations, according to project plans or specifications.